The 100 most influential persons in history according to ...

The 100 most influential persons in history according to Hart (1993, pp. vii-x)

1. Muhammad

21. Constantine the Great

2. Isaac Newton

22. James Watt III

3. Jesus Christ 4. Buddha

23. Michael Faraday 24. James Clerk Maxwell

5. Confucius

25. Martin Luther

6. St. Paul 7. Ts'ai Lun 8. Johann Gutenberg 9. Christopher Columbus 10. Albert Einstein

11. Louis Pasteur

12. Galileo Galilei 13. Aristotle 14. Euclid 15. Moses

16. Charles Darwin

17. Shih Huang Ti 18. Augustus Caesar 19. Nicolaus Copernicus 20. Antoine Lavoisier

26. George Washington 27. Karl Marx 28. Orville/Wilbur Wright 29. Genghis Khan 30. Adam Smith 31. Edward de Vere ("William Shakespeare") 32. John Dalton 33. Alexander the Great 34. Napoleon Bonaparte 35. Thomas Edison 36. Antony van Leeuwenhoek 37. William T. G. Morton 38. Guglielmo Marconi 39. Adolf Hitler 40. Plato

41. Oliver Cromwell 42. Alexander Graham Bell 43. Alexander Fleming 44. John Locke 45. Ludwig van Beethoven 46. Werner Heisenberg 47. Louis Daguerre 48. Simon Bolivar 49. Rene Descartes 50. Michelangelo

51. Pope Urban II

52. 'Umar ibn al-Khattab 53. Asoka 54. St. Augustine 55. William Harvey

61. Nikolaus August Otto

62. Francisco Pizarro

63. Hernando Cortes 64. Thomas Jefferson

65. Queen Isabella I

66. Joseph Stalin 67. Julius Caesar 68. William the Conqueror 69. Sigmund Freud 70. Edward Jenner 71. William Conrad R?ntgen 72. Johann Sebastian Bach 73. Lao Tzu 74. Voltaire 75. Johannes Kepler

81. John F. Kennedy

82. Gregory Pincus

83. Mani 84. Lenin

85. Sui Wen Ti

86. Vasco da Gama 87. Cyrus the Great 88. Peter the Great 89. Mao Zedong 90. Francis Bacon

91. Henry Ford

92. Mencius 93. Zoroaster 94. Queen Elizabeth I 95. Mikhail Gorbachev

56. Ernest Rutherford 76. Enrico Fermi

96. Menes

57. John Calvin 58. Gregor Mendel 59. Max Planck 60. Joseph Lister

77. Leonhard Euler 78. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 79. Niccol? Machiavelli 80. Thomas Malthus

97. Charlemagne 98. Homer 99. Justinian I 100. Mahavira

Spanish-speaking Chinese-speaking Ancient Greece Rome-Byzantium Italian-speaking German-speaking French-speaking English-speaking Russian-speaking Muslim Ancient India

4% 7% 5% 7% 5% 15% 10% 25% 55% 4% 2% 3%

Scientists/physicians 35%

Inventors

10%

Discoverers/conquerors 4%

Philosophers

6%

Rulers/political leaders 28%

Artists

5%

Religious leaders

12%

Eurocentric list? Non-European Non-Western

29% 20%

Science/technology Philosophers/artists

45% 11%

Leaders

44%

The most influential man in history? Norman Borlaug: Father of the Green Revolution "He saved more human lives than any other person in history": he saved hundreds of millions of starving people. Murty (2009, p. 110)

References Hart, Michael H. (1993): The 100: A ranking of the most influential persons in history, Carol Publishing Group, New York. Murty, Krishna K. (2009): 50 Timeless Scientists

"The central hypothesis of this book is that genetic differences between human groups (in particular, differences in average native intelligence) have been an important factor in human history." Michael Hart

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